Shawn Hargreaves Blog
Last night I attended an incandescent performance by Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. In the middle of a particularly flamboyant piece of tabla virtuosity, I found myself thinking about the similarities between musical rhythms and game timing. Even the most complex polyrhythms are really just the same thing as a fixed timestep game loop that doesn't match the monitor refresh rate, while many 19th century romantic compositions can be explained as the result of setting Game.IsFixedTimeStep = false.
It made sense to me at the time, anyway :-)
Music is ultimate form of human expression where the left and right side of the brain meet. It is a form that is simultaneously creative and mathematical.
Eg. Counterpoint:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint
It's a musical algorithm!
What were you doing at a concert? You must have slipped the chain to your computer. Back to work on the update, you! ;) :D
Here we go with another Weekly Roundup from the XNA World. 05-03-2007 Code Release George has posted